Meet the giant baby - born weighing a whopping 12lbs 10oz

This is one of Merseyside’s heaviest ever babies – born weighing a whopping 12lbs 10oz.
Baby Thomas Hutchinson, from Wallasey, was so big that people thought his pregnant mum was carrying twins.
He was born by Caesarean section three weeks EARLY because of the health risks that would come with a natural birth.
And the stunned surgeon who delivered Thomas described him has the “biggest baby I have ever seen”.
Mum Leanne, 34, said: “People thought I was carrying twins. I knew I was expecting a big baby.”
Thomas is Leanne’s seventh child with 32-year-old freight driver husband Nathan.
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